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Aniara

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Aniara is the title of an epic poem, written by Harry Martinsson and published in 1956. Aniara details the voyage of the goldonder Aniara, which transports colonists from the polluted and irradiated Earth to new settlements on Mars. During the journey, Aniara is knocked off course and sets a new, irreversible course towards the constellation Lyra, and the colonists, knowing they will never leave Aniara, attempt to deal with their impending, inevitable doom and realizations of mortality in various more or less insane ways. The book consists of 103 poems, cantos, of which the shortest are one stanza long and longest fill several pages.Aniara was acclaimed both by critics and the general public, and is generally considered to be the key factor in Martinsson receiving the Nobel Literature Prize in 1974.The poem has been adapted for stage several times, most notably as an opera in 1959. In 2018, the movie Aniara premiered at Toronto Film Festival.
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Gaia's Lament
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Gaia's Lament: The Earth has become ravaged to the point of uninhabitability.
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Gone Horribly Wrong
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Gone Horribly Wrong: The evasive manoeuvre on asteroid Hondo and the ensuing collision with space debris and break-up of the steering gear sends the goldonder into interstellar space, with no hope of return.
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The Stoic
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The Stoic: The space pilots.
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Everybody's Dead, Dave
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Everybody's Dead, Dave: The last canto.
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Earth That Was
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Earth That Was: Aniara left Earth when it was still technically habitable, but on the way out due to radioactive fallout and pollution. however, during the tale, Aniara intercepts a message form Earth, indicating that what was left is now completely destroyed.
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Offing the Offspring
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Offing the Offspring: Isagel murders her own son in a Murder-Suicide.
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Benevolent A.I.
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Benevolent A.I.: The mima.
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Ghost Ship
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Ghost Ship: What Aniara eventually becomes.
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Burial in Space
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Burial in Space: The chief engineer.
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GenerationShip
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Generation Ship: One of the cruellest aversions in the scifi literature.
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Gender Flip
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Gender Flip: The narrator, male in the original, is a lesbian female in the 2018 movie.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: The mima.
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Deadly Distant Finale
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Deadly Distant Finale: The end of the 2018 film cuts ahead to year 5,981,407, almost six million years after Aniara began her voyage, and shows the ship finally reaching a planet orbiting GM-54, a (fictional) star in the Lyra constellation. Of course, the Aniara is now derelict and frozen, and everyone on board is long dead.
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Double Subverted. It is the humans' requests of recalling the fate of Dorisburg which causes mima to self-destruct.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: The 2018 movie adaptation ends with the Aniara finally arriving at a celestial body after a whopping 5,981,407 years. The planet is lush and green and looks livable for humans to settle on, but the ship has become derelict, and everyone has died and turned to dust.
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Machine Worship
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Machine Worship: Many of the colonists take to viewing memories of Earth from the mima to dispel their angst and ennui, and some even take to worshipping the mima as a deity. Needless to say, they don't take the mima's death well.
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"Everybody Dies" Ending
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"Everybody Dies" Ending: It's stated outright from the start this ending will happen, and there is no Deus ex Machina to make things right.
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Future Slang
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Future Slang: Daisy the dancer speaks a slang which the narrator finds both a comforting reminder of Earth and completely incomprehensible.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Aniara is a modified version of an Ancient Greek word meaning "grieving" or "in despair".
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Murder-Suicide
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Murder-Suicide: As explicitly shown in the 2018 film, Isagel, who has long since crossed the Despair Event Horizon, kills both herself and her child.
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Conlang
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Conlang: Martinsson plays with this. For example many of the titles take their roots from a variety of languages. The Captain of Aniara bears the title "chefone", combining the French word for "boss" with the Italian augmentative suffix (in essence the captain is called "big boss") and the narrator is called "mimarob" after "mima", Martinsson's name for Aniara's Master Computer, and the Slavic word "rob" meaning serf or slave.
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Cargo Cult
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Cargo Cult: Most notably the cult that springs up around the mima, but several others pop up as well.
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Layman's Terms
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Layman's Terms: Deconstructed. After the death of the mima, the narrator is hauled to court to explain what happened... only to find that he can't. He knows exactly what happened and can explain it clearly in the jargon the mimarobs use, but when he tries to simplify it for public consumption his analogies collapse or his thoughts become muddled and incoherent to the point where they have no relation to what happened at all.
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Techno Babble
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Technobabble: Played straight, such as goldonder for a humongous spaceship.
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All for Nothing
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All for Nothing: Everyone dies in the end.
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Colony Ship
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Colony Ship: The goldonders.
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Tyrant Takes the Helm
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Tyrant Takes the Helm: Chefone.
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Hope Spot
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Hope Spot: The crew detects a probe launched towards them and believe it contains fuel and supplies to help them. When this news is announced to everyone, morale soars. But when the probe finally arrives and brings it onboard, they are unable to find anything of use. The 2018 movie has a scene six years in where MR and her team successfully gets the beam projector working to replace the mima with pictures of nature in the ship windows, only for her to come back and find Isagel and her baby dead from a Murder-Suicide.
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Heartwrenchingly averted. Martinson was a personal friend of Niels Bohr, and perfectly aware of the nature of the interstellar space. One of the things that breaks several of Aniara's inhabitants is that, in spite of the fact that they have travelled for twenty years, they are still only sixteen light-hours, within spitting distance in astronomical terms, from Earth, but still have no chance to get back to it, even with working engines.
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The Scapegoat
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The Scapegoat: After the Mima commits suicide, the blame is put on the Mimarobe even though she warned Captain Chefone the A.I. needed a rest and tried to stop people from entering the Mima room, but no one would listen.
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Despair Event Horizon
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Despair Event Horizon: An important theme of the story is what happens when a group of humans are stranded on a spaceship in the vastness of space for the rest of their lives. It’s not pretty.
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Mile-Long Ship
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Mile-Long Ship: 16,000 ft, to be exact.
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Dwindling Party
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Dwindling Party: The ship’s population gradually dies out over the years and by the end, the Aniara is abandoned.
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Wagon Train to the Stars
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Wagon Train to the Stars: Unbuilt Trope: Aniara is possibly the single most depressing example in existence. It has none of the hope of the rest of the genre; it is implied that the Mars-colonies were a desperate last-ditch attempt to save anything of humanity, and the colonists on Aniara are well aware from the get-go that there is no way for them to do anything other than live out their lives and then travel through nothingness forever.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: Martinson consulted Bohr in many scientific aspects to get it right.
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